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Quote by George Orwell
In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense o

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible. – George Orwell

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In our age there is no such thing as keeping out of politics. All issues are political issues, and politics itself is a mass of lies, evasions, folly, hatred and schizophrenia. – George Orwell

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Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion. – George Orwell

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How can anybody hate nurses? Nobody hates nurses. The only time you hate a nurse is when theyre giving you an enema. – Warren Beatty

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You will launch many projects, but have time to finish only a few. So think, plan, develop, launch and tap good people to be responsible. Give them authority and hold them accountable. Trying to do too much yourself creates a bottleneck. – Donald Rumsfeld

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You never give away your heart you lend it from time to time. If it were not so, how could we take it back without asking? – Jeanette Winterson

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We should not say that one mans hour is worth another mans hour, but rather that one man during an hour is worth just as much as another man during an hour. Time is everything, man is nothing: he is at the most times carcass. – Karl Marx

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It is sad to see a woman sacrificing the ties of the affections even to do good. – Maria Mitchell

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You have to enable and empower people to make decisions independent of you. As Ive learned, each person on a team is an extension of your leadership if they feel empowered by you they will magnify your power to lead. – Tom Ridge

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Ive reached a point in my life where its the little things that matter… I was always a rebel and probably could have got much farther had I changed my attitude. But when you think about it, I got pretty far without changing attitudes. Im happier with that. – Veronica Lake

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Virtue is a state of war, and to live in it we have always to combat with ourselves. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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